Creative Visualization

Renowned production designer Joe Stewart set to work months in advance. “We use a ground plan,” he says, “to describe where the walls are going to go and where we’re going to place furniture--and in this case stoves. Then we make a model.”

Game Plan

Stewart needed to scale models that included room for big appliances, plus small ones and ingredients for cooking. “These things have to be accessible to the contestants so they can run from here to there,” he says. “Furthermore, everything has to be accessible to the cameras.”